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I have used vs I have use

The correct phrase is "I have used." The verb "use" in the past participle form should be "used" when used with the auxiliary verb "have." This construction is commonly used in English.

Last updated: March 22, 2024 • 1639 views

I have used

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is the correct form of the present perfect tense, where "have" is the auxiliary verb and "used" is the past participle of the verb "use."

Examples:

  • I have used this software before.
  • She has used up all the paper.
  • Have you ever used a typewriter?
  • They have used all the available resources.
  • We have used this method in the past.
  • I have used you and prayers to forgive myself for my horrible sins.
  • Ben, on three separate occasions, I have used a quilt to mend fences.
  • How do I know how many resources I have used?
  • Following the normal practice within my committee, this year I have used the matters that we found during our discharge procedure to draw some budgetary amendments to get what the Committee on Budgetary Control would like to see from the Commission and other institutions.
  • For the last instants, I have used the witness statements from the Trial of Rehabilitation which took place 25 years later.
  • I should like to thank Mrs Hoff for accepting my amendments from the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, and particularly for the humour with which she has responded to the ploys which I have used in the process.
  • Ever since then, I have used clothes to declare who I am.
  • I have used nutritive mediums containing... human tissue, blood and saliva, even sulphur, however, none of the seven trials have successfully grown... the fungus that killed Tanaka.
  • Mr President, when I present reports to this Parliament I like to add by way of a signature a quotation and in this case I have used the Arabian proverb: 'He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything'.
  • I have used this metaphor to illustrate that, even if we create the best construct, the best infrastructure, if we forget that we are building it for the citizens of Europe, then we shall have failed.
  • Mr. Nakamura, I have used my hitherto unmentioned chemical engineering degree to get a real job at the Springfield Phosphate Works.
  • I have used chemical strategy as a good example of an area in which we need to do this.
  • - I have used... every law-enforcement resource known to man.
  • I have used thee with ingratitude and betrayed thy trust.
  • Everything nice that I have used to be Tasha's.
  • I have used mine a grand total of zero times.
  • that I have used confidential information available to me to enrich my family.
  • I have used no such trickery to summon your ardor, I assure you.
  • Fret not. It's a double encryption, my dear that Sherly and I have used since we were boys.
  • I have taken a unique part of who you are and I have used that to memorize your name.

I have use

This phrase is incorrect. The verb "use" should be in the past participle form "used" when used with the auxiliary verb "have."

  • You said yourself, I have use for her why would I kill her?
  • AT LEAST I HAVE USE FOR KEYS.
  • I stole it... I have uses for it.
  • But I may have use for you.
  • Well... I think I have to use the bathroom.
  • - I'm sorry. I have to use the restroom.
  • Excuse me, I have to use the powder room.
  • I have no use for you.
  • I have better use for you alive.
  • I have no use for you anymore.
  • Doesn't mean I have to use it.
  • Otherwise, I have no use for you.
  • No. I have to use that window to secure our helicopter contract.
  • I have no use for euphemisms, James.
  • Excuse me, I have to use the restroom.
  • To be honest, I have little use for immortality.
  • Get away afore I have to use it.
  • I have to use the ladies room again.
  • Carter, I have to use the ladies' room.
  • I have to use the boy's...

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